NOTTING HILL
Around Westbourne Grove
THE EARL OF LONSDALE PH.
It is named after the enormously wealthy fifth Earl of Lonsdale, known as the Yellow Earl because of his liking for that colour. He was a founder of and first President of the Automobile Association which adopted his livery.
The pub is divided by wood & glass screens into five small drinking areas or compartments with interconnecting low little gates in between them (duck-unders ?) to allow movement between.
Samuel Smith, oldest YORKSHIRE brewery
Samuel Smith’s pubs stock Walker & Scott’s wines and spirits. Founded in York in 1721.Samuel Smith’s make their own range of soft drinks under the Scintilla brand. Scintilla soft drinks are mosly vegan
Be polite, and do not use any gadgets
It is the job of the managers to build up the trade by creating a friendly, social atmosphere with conversation, pub games and consistent high standards. We do not have music, TVs or fruit machines in any of our pubs, we do not allow swearing and have negligible trouble. We close all our pubs at 11 pm Monday to Saturday and 10.30 pm on a Sunday. Where food is served we have a branded menu.
A few pubs and a hotel in Greater London
Former theatre and cinema. CHARLES DICKENS did readings here
Site of Alice S. G. Brown Welfare Centre (also known as the Archer Street Infant Welfare Centre)
Down Portobello Road
Denbigh Terrace
R.BRANSON , PETER COOK
Antiques!
Nobody knows really how it started.
THE PORTOBELLO GOLD PH
Chepstow Villas
Lazos Kossuth lived here
Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician. Governor-President during the 1848 - 9 revolution. He spent 3 weeks in England in 1851 on a speaking tour, about Hungarian nationalism and independence. One venue was Copenhagen Fields. Died Italy.
Former ST.PETER’s SCHOOL
George Orwell lived here
Orwell was in lodgings here for a brief period: from late 1927 to Spring 1928. After giving up his post as a policeman in Burma to become a writer, Orwell moved to rooms in Portobello Road, London at the end of 1927. While contributing to various journals, he undertook investigative tramping expeditions in and around London, collecting material for use in "The Spike" (in which he details his experience staying overnight in the casual ward of a workhouse (colloquially known as a "spike") his first published essay, and for the latter half of Down and Out in Paris and London. In spring of 1928 he moved to Paris
From Portobello Road: alongside WESTBOURNE GROVE
Do not miss the toilets!
THE WALMER CASTLE PH
JIMI HENDRIX lived here
